The Fabric Brief — Monday, November 9: Dhaka's Wage Math Gets Real & Manchester Wants Its Looms Back

Today's brief: Dhaka's wage board meets with numbers in hand, Manchester plots a manufacturing comeback, and a plastic that could not be dyed finally learns how. - Top stories: Bangladesh's wage board holds its second meeting with owners and workers submitting separate pay proposals, Manchester maps a revival of British garment manufacturing, and textile recycling reaches commercial scale in England. - Textile Tallys: the average tariff on clothing imported into America has climbed to twenty four point five six percent, while Kontoor's denim quarter stays careful and Steven Madden's shoe quarter stays loud. - Textile science deep dive: Prime Polymer and Newlight Technologies blend polypropylene with a methane eating microbe polymer so the lightest fibre in the wardrobe can finally be dyed. - Controversy: the word sustainable has no legal definition on an American clothing label, and the rulebook that governs green claims has not been revised since twenty twelve.